Festival organisers announced its gala screenings ahead of the Los Angeles event set to run from July 9-19.
Tig is a documentary about stand-up comedienne Tig Notaro who became an overnight sensation when she turned her cancer diagnosis into a stand-up set. François Ozon’s melodrama The New Girlfriend closes the festival.
Additional gala screenings include Sebastián Silva’s Berlin Teddy Award winner and Us Dramatic Centerpiece Nasty Baby starring Silva and Kristin Wiig as well as Alanté Kavaïté’s Sundance selection and International Centerpiece The Summer Of Sangaile.
Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein In Guanajuato is also an International Centerpiece and the Documentary Centerpieces are Best Of Enemies by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon and Malcolm Ingram’s Out To Win.
“This year’s gala selections underline the fact that our community is empowered openly identifying as Lgbt,” said Outfest interim executive director Christopher Racster.
“The programme truly represents Outfest’s commitment to use the power of film...
Tig is a documentary about stand-up comedienne Tig Notaro who became an overnight sensation when she turned her cancer diagnosis into a stand-up set. François Ozon’s melodrama The New Girlfriend closes the festival.
Additional gala screenings include Sebastián Silva’s Berlin Teddy Award winner and Us Dramatic Centerpiece Nasty Baby starring Silva and Kristin Wiig as well as Alanté Kavaïté’s Sundance selection and International Centerpiece The Summer Of Sangaile.
Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein In Guanajuato is also an International Centerpiece and the Documentary Centerpieces are Best Of Enemies by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon and Malcolm Ingram’s Out To Win.
“This year’s gala selections underline the fact that our community is empowered openly identifying as Lgbt,” said Outfest interim executive director Christopher Racster.
“The programme truly represents Outfest’s commitment to use the power of film...
- 5/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
London Lgbt film festival records biggest box office to date.
BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival concluded on Sunday (March 29) with the European premiere of Malcolm Ingram’s new documentary, Out To Win, celebrating the battle for equality by Lgbt sports people. Special guests included director Malcolm Ingram and basketball star John Amaechi.
The closing night screening broke all box office records in the festival’s 29 years, with audiences of more than 23,500 recorded over the 11-day festival - up by 6.8% on the previous year.
This year’s festival also saw a step-change in industry attendance with a substantial increase in delegate accreditation, including 120 film-makers and more than 200 other industry attendees.
An expanded industry offering included a series of daily workshops on all aspects of film-making, fund-raising, marketing and the creative process.
Mentorship
The inaugural BFI Flare Mentorship programme in association with Creative Skillset was launched with five film-makers.
A partnership between BFI Flare and the British Council...
BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival concluded on Sunday (March 29) with the European premiere of Malcolm Ingram’s new documentary, Out To Win, celebrating the battle for equality by Lgbt sports people. Special guests included director Malcolm Ingram and basketball star John Amaechi.
The closing night screening broke all box office records in the festival’s 29 years, with audiences of more than 23,500 recorded over the 11-day festival - up by 6.8% on the previous year.
This year’s festival also saw a step-change in industry attendance with a substantial increase in delegate accreditation, including 120 film-makers and more than 200 other industry attendees.
An expanded industry offering included a series of daily workshops on all aspects of film-making, fund-raising, marketing and the creative process.
Mentorship
The inaugural BFI Flare Mentorship programme in association with Creative Skillset was launched with five film-makers.
A partnership between BFI Flare and the British Council...
- 4/2/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lgbt festival to close with documentary Out To Win; Rocky Horror to screen at BFI Imax.
The full line-up of this year’s BFI Flare (March 19-29) has been unveiled in London this evening.
As previously announced, the 29th edition of the Lgbt film festival will open with Justin Kelly’s I Am Michael, starring James Franco and Zachary Quinto.
It was revealed this evening that the festival will close with the European premiere of documentary Out To Win on March 29.
Malcolm Ingram’s film examines of the lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian athletes from all over the world, featuring contributions from Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, David Kopay and John Amaechi, among others.
It marks Ingram’s return to the festival having previously screened documentaries Small Town Gay Bar and Continental. Out To Win will world premiere at SXSW on March 15.
Gala screenings
The Accenture Gala will be the European Premiere...
The full line-up of this year’s BFI Flare (March 19-29) has been unveiled in London this evening.
As previously announced, the 29th edition of the Lgbt film festival will open with Justin Kelly’s I Am Michael, starring James Franco and Zachary Quinto.
It was revealed this evening that the festival will close with the European premiere of documentary Out To Win on March 29.
Malcolm Ingram’s film examines of the lives and careers of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian athletes from all over the world, featuring contributions from Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, David Kopay and John Amaechi, among others.
It marks Ingram’s return to the festival having previously screened documentaries Small Town Gay Bar and Continental. Out To Win will world premiere at SXSW on March 15.
Gala screenings
The Accenture Gala will be the European Premiere...
- 2/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in TrainwreckPhoto: Universal Pictures With Sundance just wrapping up and Berlin starting up in a few days, we are now immersed in the year-long barrage of film festivals. One such festival in South By Southwest. A few weeks back they announced the first seven films of their program, including the opening night film Brand: A Second Coming. Today, they have revealed the rest of the features to be shown in March (except for the midnight program), and some of it has me very excited. The bigger titles announced do not do much for me. Paul Feig's Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy, and the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart starrer Get Hard leave a lot to be desired in terms of anticipation, as does a work in progress cut of Judd Apatow's latest film Trainwreck. I'm guessing an Apatow work in progress is probably around three and a half hours.
- 2/3/2015
- by Mike Shutt
- Rope of Silicon
South by Southwest, the multi-faceted film, music and technology festival held annually in Austin, TX will feature such upcoming films as Paul Feig’s Spy, David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Alex Gibney’s documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, and Ondi Timoner’s Russell Brand profile Brand: A Second Coming as headliners in this year’s film festival lineup.
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
SXSW runs from March 13 to 21 in Austin and is now in its 22nd year. Variety has details of the 145 films and 100 world premieres bowing at this year’s festival. Brand, as previously reported, will be the festival’s opening night film.
Other notable titles on the list are the Will Ferrell/Kevin Hart comedy Get Hard, a rough cut of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland, Ex Machina, and a new comedy by Michael Showalter, Hello, My Name is Doris.
On the small screen,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
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